Policy information sourced from Enfield’s North East Enfield Area Action Plan (NEEAAP)
10.1 Ponders End High Street
Develop a comprehensive street design scheme which - through public realm enhancements - helps to enhance local distinctiveness, support Local Centre activity and contribute to an improved sense of security whilst still providing for traffi c movements. This scheme should include the principles and projects set out in Figure 10.2, which include:
- comprehensive de-cluttering and tidy-up of the street by rationalising signage, road markings and street furniture;
- creating a focal zone related to the redevelopment of Ponders End Central and Swan Annex where building frontages are improved and new paving, street furniture and signage creates a distinctively high quality place;
- improving the southern gateway at South Street through public realm improvements, works to the site of the former pub on the corner of South Street and improving the visibility of setback shop frontages; and
- ensuring that the works to the southern gateway and the focal zone relate to the character of the improvements made to the entrance to Ponders End Park, so that there is consistency;
Improving the northern gateway by:
- encouraging improvements to the Tesco Store so that its frontage relates more positively to the High Street. More ambitious redevelopment proposals would be welcomed, and could include new mixed-use development to the rear of the High Street that backs onto the unattractive edges onto the car park; and
- the junction with Nag’s Head Road is very busy. However, a scheme to improve connectivity for pedestrians and cyclists should be undertaken in conjunction with public realm works to improve the northern gateway. Improvements to the Tesco store would add signifi cantly to such public realm works, and ideally the two should be carried out in tandem.
For more information please see the North East Enfield Area Action Plan (NEEAAP)